Hybrid Legal Counsel

at Wayflyer

• Job title: Legal Counsel
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dublin, Ireland

About the role

• Legal Counsel supporting corporate transactions and company secretarial needs for Wayflyer, a FinTech company. Providing strategic legal advice and managing documentation related to various transactions.

Responsibilities

• Support our CLO on corporate transactions and strategic initiatives, including equity raises, acquisitions, inter-company arrangements and other ad hoc transactions.
• Draft, review and coordinate transaction documentation, pre and post-completion deliverables and ancillary documents.
• Work closely with internal teams and external advisers to ensure the smooth and efficient completion of transactions.
• Lead and manage our global company secretarial requirements across the group, ensuring Irish and international statutory compliance, maintaining statutory registers and records and liaising with external company secretarial providers.
• Partner with our Finance and People teams to support our equity management processes, including maintaining cap tables, liaising with equity platform providers, managing employee queries and processing equity transactions.
• Partner with our Finance team to support audit processes.
• Provide ad hoc legal support to internal stakeholders on a range of matters relating to Wayflyer’s financial products, such as customer deals and vendor commercial contracts.
• Partner with our Capital Markets and Finance teams on a broad range of financing and debt capital markets transactions.
• Manage and coordinate external counsel in multiple jurisdictions where required to ensure timely and expert support.
• Drive continuous improvements in governance, documentation, company secretarial and other internal processes, including through leveraging AI tools and agent-driven workflows.

Requirements

• You are an Irish or UK qualified lawyer.
• You have 1 - 3 years’ experience working as a transactional lawyer, either in practice or in-house, with experience in corporate M&A, capital markets and/or banking matters.
• You ideally have some experience with company secretarial matters, whether through your day-to-day role or as part of a training seat, and are comfortable leading on company secretarial and statutory compliance requirements.
• You have strong commercial acumen and attention to detail, can work autonomously without the need for significant guidance or input and can make risk-based decisions, seeking appropriate guidance and input at appropriate junctures.
• You demonstrate strong curiosity about AI, automation and agent-driven workflows and how these tools can be applied to drive improvements and efficiencies across legal, compliance and company secretarial processes.
• You are able to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to drive efficiencies in transaction processes.
• You can work at pace and deal effectively with ambiguity.
• You have a proactive approach with excellent interpersonal skills and have the ability to use your initiative and work as part of a team.
• You are flexible (and can work flexible hours to suit business requirements) and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
• You have strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload and manage competing deadlines.
• You have an ownership mentality, always seeking to improve Wayflyer's success, even in functions outside of Legal.
• You have high energy and enthusiasm for how the legal department can bring value to the business and help it resolve some of its hardest problems.
• Experience with G-Suite, DocuSign, Notion and/or equity management platforms such as Ledgy would be an advantage but are not required.

Benefits

• 25 days of paid annual leave
• Access support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our *Wellbeing @ Wayflyer* ERG
• Private healthcare
• Life insurance
• Critical illness cover
• Pension plan
• Generous parental and adoptive leave, including 6 months of paid leave for Primary Caregivers and 3 months of paid leave for Secondary Caregivers
• Equity scheme